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| Beachapedia captures decades of experience and knowledge gained by Surfrider Foundation activists, scientists and staff through hundreds of environmental and educational campaigns on our coasts. By sharing this resource with the public we hope to provide tools and information to help communities make a positive impact on their local beaches.
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- Access Point
- Accretion
- Administrative Procedure
- Aeolian Transport
- Aquaculture
- Aquapedia
- Armoring
- Army Corps of Engineers
- Army Corps of Engineers - Working with the Corps
- Artificial Surfing Reefs
- Atoll
B
- Backshore
- Backwash
- Bacteria
- Bacteria in Sand
- Bacterial Pollution, Tracking the Sources
- Bar
- Barrier Beach
- Barrier Island
- Beach
- Beach Access
- Beach Cleanups
- Beach Cusp
- Beach Driving
- Beach Ecology
- Beach Fill
- Beach Grooming
- Beach Is Alive
- Beach Loss
- Beach Manifesto
- Beach Monitoring
- Beach Narrowing
- Beach Profile
- Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act of 2000
- Benthic Zone
- Berm
- Bioaccumulation
- Biomagnification
- Bioplastics
- Bitou Bush
- Blowout
- Blue Water Task Force
- Bluff
- Borrow Site
- Brackish Water
- Breakwater
- Building Setback
- Bulkheads
C
- California State Lands Commission
- Cigarette Butt Litter
- Clean Water Act
- Climate Change
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Closure Depth
- Coastal Access in California
- Coastal Act and the California Coastal Commission
- Coastal Barrier Resources Act
- Coastal Compartment
- Coastal Plain
- Coastal Resilience
- Coastal Zone Management Act
- Combined Sewer Overflows
- Contaminated Sediments
- Cruise Ship Pollution
D
- Dam Removal in Coastal Watersheds
- Dead Zones
- Deflation
- Desalination
- Dispersants
- Domoic Acid and Sea Lions
- Downdrift
- Drugs in the Water
- Dry Weather Diversions
- Dry Weather Diversions in California - Diverted by Diversions?
- Dune
- Dune Profile
- Dune Restoration
- Dune Walkover
E
- Ebb Current
- Ebb Tidal Delta
- Economic Impact of Beaches
- Ecosystem Services Valuation
- Ecosystem-Based Management
- Entrainment
- Environment Effects Act 1978 (Victoria, Australia)
- Environmentally Friendly Surfboards
- Epidemiology Studies
- Erosion
- Erosion Hot Spots
- Erosion Response
- Erosion Watchspots
- Erosion and Coastal Management in Florida
- Estuary
- Eustatic Sea-Level Rise
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G
- Geotextile Tubes
- Golf Courses: Friend or Foe?
- Gradient
- Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- Green Streets
- Groin
- Groundwater
- Grunion
- Gully
- Gyre
H
- Hands Across the Sand
- Hard Stabilization
- Health Threats from Polluted Coastal Waters
- High Water Line
- Historic Preservation and Surf Resources
- Hurricane Sandy - The Response
- Hurricanes
- Hydromodification
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- Impervious surface
- Impingement
- Indirect Potable Reuse
- Infiltration Capacity
- Integrated Water Management
- International Surfing Day
- Intertidal Zone
- Isostatic
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- LNG (Liquified Natural Gas)
- Lake
- Levee
- Littoral Cell
- Littoral Drift
- Littoral System
- Longshore Current
- Longshore Sediment Transport
- Low Impact Development and Bioretention
M
- Making Waves
- Managed Retreat
- Mangroves
- Marine Debris
- Marine Layer
- Marine Life Protection Act
- Marine Protected Areas series
- Marine Resource Committees
- Marine Spatial Planning
- Maritime Transport Pollution
- Mean Sea Level
- Meander
- Mitigation Through Surf Enhancement
- Montauk 8 - A Legal Perspective
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- NEPA, CEQA, and EISs
- NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- National Ocean Policy
- Neap Tide
- Nearshore
- Nodal Point
- Non Point Source Pollution
- Nor’easters
- Not the Answer
- Nurdle
O
- Oblique Wave Approach
- Ocean Acidification
- Ocean Currents
- Ocean Friendly Gardens
- Ocean Friendly Gardens Activist Toolkit
- Ocean Friendly Gardens Criteria
- Ocean Health Index
- Ocean Preservation: A Historical Perspective
- Ocean Reports
- Offshore
- Offshore Oil Drilling
- Oil Pollution Act of 1990
- Once-through Cooling
- Opportunistic Beach Fill
- Overwash
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- Peat
- Pelagic Zone
- Perigean
- Perigean Spring Tides
- Personal Watercraft
- Pet Waste
- Plastic Bags
- Plastic Bottles
- Plunge Pool
- Pocket Beach
- Pollution Source Tracking
- Polystyrene
- Pratte's Reef
- Pulp Mills
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- Rigs to Reefs
- Rill
- Rip Currents
- Riparian
- Riprap
- Rise Above Plastics
- Rise Above Plastics Facts and Figures
- River
- River mouth
- Riverbank
- Riverbed
- Rolling Easements
- Runnel
- Runoff
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- Sand
- Sand Bags
- Sand Compatibility
- Sand Waves
- Sanitary Surveys
- Scarp
- Scarping
- Scour
- Sea
- Sea Breeze
- Sea Foam
- Sea Level Rise
- Seawalls
- Seawalls/Photo Gallery
- Sediment
- Sediment Load
- Seismic Surveys
- Semi-Hard Stabilization
- Septic Systems
- Sewer Systems and Sewage Treatment
- Shadow Effect
- Sharks - White Sharks in California
- Sheetflow
- Shifting Baselines
- Shifting Baselines in the Surf
- Shoal
- Shoreline
- Shoreline Structures
- Single Use Plastics
- Slough
- Soft Stabilization
- Sort
- Spoil
- Spring Tide
- Staph Infections
- State of the Beach
- Storm Drain
- Storm Surge
- Stormwater
- Stream
- Stream Terrace
- Surf Zone Water Quality
- Surferpedia
- Surfing Area Protection
- Surfing Etiquette
- Surfonomics
- Swash
- Swell
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- TMDLs and Impaired Water Bodies
- Terminal Groin
- Texas Open Beaches Act
- Tidal Bore
- Tidal Inlet
- Tidal Prism
- Tidal range
- Tidepool
- Tides
- Tombolo
- Transpiration
- Tributary
- Tsunami
- Tsunami Marine Debris
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